Aminatou Echard

Aminatou Echard

She studied Ethnomusicology and cinema. As an artist who works with experimental film and documentary, Aminatou’s focus is how space transforms people and how people inhabit spaces. She conveys this idea by exploring the relationship between sound and image.Fieldwork is an essential part of her artistic practice. From 2006 onwards, she travelled regularly to Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan), where she collected numerous Super 8 images and sounds in order to explore the special links forged between people and their environment. In 2007 she directs Kyrghyz sketches, a short experimental film from the first collected material and in 2010 Broadway, a documentary produced by the G.R.E.C and Jamilia in 2018, a Super 8 feature film presented at the Forum Berlinale 2018 and at Cinéma du réel.